AMERICAN SHIPPING
POST-WAR PROGRAMME Recd. 10.55 p.m. New York. Aug. 30. Noting that the United States will have a post-war “preponderance of the world’s ocean-going tonnage as well as competent personnel,” the American Merchant Marine Institute proposed a ten-point programme, the most important of which was the reservation of a defence pool of five million tons of shipping stored in American inland waters for an emergency but not used in competition with private shipping. Other points .are the eventual transfer of Government-owned ships to private interests the continuance . of the Maritime Commission’s building programme to help American companies carry the greatly-increased foreign trade, modernisation and expansion of the domestic fleet, and also the servicing of Axis trade routes and the participation of American vessels in tramp shipping, which “offers many opportunities for trade penetration under friendly or unfriendly auspices.” The shipping policy should be formulated with due regard for the legitimate interest of the Allies. However, it must be emphasised that the merchant fleet is a national asset paid for by United States taxpayer?
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 206, 1 September 1943, Page 5
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